Al-Fajr · The Dawn

وَٱلْفَجْرِ ﴿١﴾

By the dawn

wal-fajri

وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍۢ ﴿٢﴾

And [by] ten nights

walayālin ʿashrin

وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ ﴿٣﴾

And [by] the even [number] and the odd

wal-shafʿi wal-watri

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ ﴿٤﴾

And [by] the night when it passes,

wa-al-layli idhā yasri

هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌۭ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ ﴿٥﴾

Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?

hal fī dhālika qasamun lidhī ḥij'rin

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ ﴿٦﴾

Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -

alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʿādin

إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ ﴿٧﴾

[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,

irama dhāti l-ʿimādi

ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ ﴿٨﴾

The likes of whom had never been created in the land?

allatī lam yukh'laq mith'luhā fī l-bilādi

وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ ﴿٩﴾

And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?

wathamūda alladhīna jābū l-ṣakhra bil-wādi

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ ﴿١٠﴾

And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?

wafir'ʿawna dhī l-awtādi

ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ ﴿١١﴾

[All of] whom oppressed within the lands

alladhīna ṭaghaw fī l-bilādi

فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ ﴿١٢﴾

And increased therein the corruption.

fa-aktharū fīhā l-fasāda

فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ ﴿١٣﴾

So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.

faṣabba ʿalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʿadhābin

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ ﴿١٤﴾

Indeed, your Lord is in observation.

inna rabbaka labil-mir'ṣādi

فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ ﴿١٥﴾

And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."

fa-ammā l-insānu idhā mā ib'talāhu rabbuhu fa-akramahu wanaʿʿamahu fayaqūlu rabbī akramani

وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَـٰنَنِ ﴿١٦﴾

But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."

wa-ammā idhā mā ib'talāhu faqadara ʿalayhi riz'qahu fayaqūlu rabbī ahānani

كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ ﴿١٧﴾

No! But you do not honor the orphan

kallā bal lā tuk'rimūna l-yatīma

وَلَا تَحَـٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ﴿١٨﴾

And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.

walā taḥāḍḍūna ʿalā ṭaʿāmi l-mis'kīni

وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًۭا لَّمًّۭا ﴿١٩﴾

And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,

watakulūna l-turātha aklan lamman

وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّۭا جَمًّۭا ﴿٢٠﴾

And you love wealth with immense love.

watuḥibbūna l-māla ḥubban jamman

كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّۭا دَكًّۭا ﴿٢١﴾

No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed

kallā idhā dukkati l-arḍu dakkan dakkan

وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّۭا صَفًّۭا ﴿٢٢﴾

And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,

wajāa rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffan

وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ﴿٢٣﴾

And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?

wajīa yawma-idhin bijahannama yawma-idhin yatadhakkaru l-insānu wa-annā lahu l-dhik'rā

يَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى ﴿٢٤﴾

He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

yaqūlu yālaytanī qaddamtu liḥayātī

فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ ﴿٢٥﴾

So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,

fayawma-idhin lā yuʿadhibu ʿadhābahu aḥadun

وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ ﴿٢٦﴾

And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

walā yūthiqu wathāqahu aḥadun

يَـٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ﴿٢٧﴾

[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,

yāayyatuhā l-nafsu l-muṭ'ma-inatu

ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةًۭ مَّرْضِيَّةًۭ ﴿٢٨﴾

Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],

ir'jiʿī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatan marḍiyyatan

فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَـٰدِى ﴿٢٩﴾

And enter among My [righteous] servants

fa-ud'khulī fī ʿibādī

وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى ﴿٣٠﴾

And enter My Paradise."

wa-ud'khulī jannatī